Limited availability of human capital data on the internal audit function (IAF) has constrained research on this topic. This study overcomes certain data limitations by using LinkedIn data from Revelio Labs. Using longitudinal data on individual IAF employees, we document that IAF experience,...

Using a qualitative research design, this study examined the inventory valuation conflict between financial managers and auditors and its implications for the International Accounting Standard 2 (IAS 2). This study found that the conflict arose due to the lack of precise instructions in the IAS...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the effect of the time value of money on the financial statement. The article also includes discussions on the income statement, retained earnings, statement of financial position, cash flow statement, and time value of money

This study investigates the association between the power of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and the readability of financial narrative disclosures in annual reports. As CFOs are ultimately responsible for the quality of annual financial reporting, I expect that by empowering CFOs, they are able...

This paper examines whether the financial reporting quality of audit clients is affected more by the national culture of the home country of an international parent audit firm or the national culture of its affiliates' host country. The study uses 111,949 firm-year observations for 16,444 unique...

This study investigates the effects of financial statement comparability on corporate expected default risk (EDF). Based on three different comparability measures, we find that financial statement comparability is negatively related to the EDF in the current and subsequent periods. This negative...

A wide range of parties involved in evaluating economic performance, including investors, auditors, interest groups, bankers, government organizations, academics, and analysts, can benefit greatly from the immediate detection of fraudulent financial reports. This research presents a novel...

Understand and explain the benefits and consequences of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) convergence from the expected timeline for convergence. Accountants must be able to record and report transactions involving the exchange of US dollars in foreign currency

The quality of financial reporting shows how informative the accounting numbers are for decision-making. Because business outlook can influence financial reporting quality, this study examined predictable, moderately predictable and unpredictable business outlooks. The study randomly selected...

The article deals with the author's approach to the analysis of corporate financial statements as a tool of financial management in modern conditions, which is based on the concept of compromise between risk and profitability, is characterized by universality and relative simplicity, involving...

We study financial reporting and disclosure practices in China using survey methods similar to prior studies of U.S. firms (i.e., Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005; Dichev, Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2013). Comparing earnings features, motives to manage and smooth earnings, and voluntary...

Under IAS 17, around 85% of leases were reported as operating. Under IFRS 16, finance and operating leases are no longer separated. This study responds to the IFRS Foundation's call about the effects of implementing IFRS 16 by examining three types of effects: a combined effect, a...

This study assesses the impact of corporate board reforms affect firms’ financial reporting practices. Using a sample of 40 countries and employing a difference-in-differences design, we find that corporate board reforms lead to a reduction in firms' real earnings manipulation and...

Understand and explain the benefits and consequences of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) convergence from the expected timeline for convergence. Accountants must be able to record and report transactions involving the exchange of US dollars in foreign currency

This research investigates financial reporting entities, which is an important topic in the field of accounting and financial reporting. The purpose of this study is to discover and analyze the main features of financial reporting entities as well as their value in financial reporting. At the...

Objective: The objective of this research is to examine the connection between the efficiency of the audit committee and the quality of audits on the accuracy of financial reports.Method: The study collected data from annual reports and financial statements of listed companies across three...

Using a dataset covering 3 million commercial borrower financial statements, we document a substantial, nearly monotonic decline in banks’ use of attested financial statements (AFS) in lending over the past two decades. Two market forces help explain this trend. First, technological advances...

Purpose - To investigate the consequence of COVID-19 pandemic on the financial reporting and disclosure (FRD) practices, the study has been conducted. Moreover, this paper highlights the significance of FRD practices in any emergency period and its relevance with legitimacy theory in Bangladesh...

The purpose of this study is to compare audit effectiveness and audit efficiency between companies that have integrated auditing of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) and financial statements and companies that have separate auditing. We analyse a sample of Chinese public companies...

The auditor should use qualitative characteristics, which describe the essence of misstatement, while assessing identified misstatements. Final decision depends on the professional judgment made by the auditor, however, auditors may make erroneous decisions or be biased. Previous theoretical...

Previous studies of tax enforcement neglect the effect of tax-penalty discretionary benchmarks on corporate financial reporting quality. In China, province-level variations in implementing tax-penalty discretionary benchmarks provide a quasi-natural experiment to explore how tax enforcement...

The effect of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on the level of financial statements comparability was investigated for Russia in the current article. Canada was chosen for comparison due to the close time frame of IFRS adoption, which also allowed comparing the...

Creative accounting is considered to be a 21st-century phenomenon that has received increased attention after the worldwide economic crisis and budget deficits, particularly the prevention and detection of accounting manipulation. Creative accounting is a practice that influences financial...

This work analyses whether financial information quality is relevant to explaining firms’ probability of default. A financial default prediction model for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) is presented, which includes not only traditional measures but also financial reporting quality (FRQ)...

With the increased focus on corporate culture as an important determinant of organizational behavior and outcomes, we study how corporate culture affects firm financial reporting quality. Relying on the Competing Values Framework (CVF) to define four types of corporate culture, we find that...

Since the adoption of IFRS the world over, many studies have been conducted by researchers on the effectiveness of IFRS compared to local GAAPS. This study adds to the existing literature by investigating the effectiveness of SAS and IFRS based financial reports. The study specifically reviews...

This study investigates how FinTech development affects financial reporting quality. We characterize the regional FinTech development using manually collected information on FinTech patents, and find that regional FinTech development reduces local firms’ real earnings management. The mechanism...

This study uses passage of the Dodd-Frank Act as a setting to examine whether changes in legal liability exposure faced by credit rating agencies affect the number of financial statement information signals required before rating changes. For upgrades, we predict and find that the greater legal...

We examine whether gender diversity of chief executive and chief financial officers (CEOs and CFOs) is associated with financial reporting quality. The CEOs and CFOs of publicly traded companies are both required to certify the appropriateness of their financial statements and annual...

This study examines the impact of shared analyst coverage on the comparability of financial statements. Analysts form information expectations based on the portfolio of firms they follow. I document that managers cater to analyst information expectations by increasing the comparability of their...

We develop novel empirical measures of textual comparability that capture key topics of the entire 10-K text and incorporate the effect of economic events. For validation, we show that the likelihood of accounting information users (financial analysts, Internet-search users and corporate boards)...

This paper uses confidential data on audit engagement partner names from regulatory filings of bank holding companies (BHC) to investigate whether partners display individual style that affects the financial reporting of the BHCs. We focus on loan loss provisioning. We construct an audit...

The goal of study is to identify the phenomenon of the manipulation of financial statements in the modern business world and in particular the study of the case of fraud by Folli-Follie, which led to bankruptcy in 2019 in Greece. The manipulation of financial statements and fraud in general in...

This study examines how nonprofessional equity investors value variations in audit quality at different levels of audit clients’ pre-audit financial reporting quality. Using source credibility theory, we predict that nonprofessional investors will value the greater reduction in information...

This study investigates the relationship between the tone of financial disclosures and managers' earnings management behavior using Form 20-F filings of Chinese firms listed in the U.S. during 2002-2014. The results show that the proportion of positive, uncertain, or modal words used in...